Etymology

coffee shop

Today it means: A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks. Full definition →

Dutch coffeeshop
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The story

  1. Dutch · borrowed fromcoffeeshop
  2. English todaycoffee shop

From coffee + shop. Sense 2 is from Dutch coffeeshop, a pseudo-anglicism of this term.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.